Today we are going show the results of testing the QNAP TS-419P Turbo NAS on the new Storage Product Test System. To spice things up we will also include the results of the N4100 Pro tested on a similar system.

Intel NASPT

The Intel NAS Performance Toolkit (NASPT) is a file system exerciser and analysis tool designed to enable direct measurement of home network attached storage (NAS) performance. Designed to emulate the behavior of an actual application, NASPT uses a set of real world workload traces gathered from typical digital home applications. Traces of high definition video playback and recording, office productivity applications, video rendering/content creation and more provide a broad range of different application behaviors.

With the latest version of NASPT, users may even add their own custom traces. NASPT reproduces the file system traffic recorded in these traces onto whatever storage solution the user provides, records the system response, and reports a rich variety of performance information.

As far as our testing methods go, we test in several different configurations because most users will start out with one or two drives and add them as needed, migrating the RAID array along the way.

For a comparison we chose to use the Thecus N4100 Pro, a 4-bay NAS server that we tested in 2008. The N4100 Pro uses an AMD processor running at 500 MHz and uses 256MB of cache. Newegg still lists the N4100 Pro and it is available for 419.99 USD. The QNAP TS-419P should beat this NAS in all of the benchmark tests; let's see how they fared.

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